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A few weeks a go I was contacted by LA Times Freelance writer Kim Kabar for an article about my Wedding Planning blog, I was so excited and finally two Sundays a go the article was published! (I was interviewed along with my friends Tabitha from Ms.Awesome and Laura from Happy hour with a housewife) It took me a few days to finally read it because I was visiting Ken up in San Jose that weekend. So I was really looking forward to it. When I read it I was super excited and didn’t notice anything wrong, but last week I read Tabitha’s experience with the article and it got me pretty upset.

Maybe that’s the reason I was not excited enough to share it right away, but don’t get me wrong I AM super excited because one of our amazing wedding pictures by Next Exit Photography was published in the paper along with the interview about my blogging experience =] It’s just that I don’t agree with the way Tabitha and Cynthia were treated.

I started working at Snow Valley again. I was actually pretty nice the fact that as soon as we got back from our vacations in Chile we got a pretty big storm and lots of snow with it. I worked until Tuesday witch made me be a little behind on my Design schedule but I got to snowboard one afternoon witch made it so worth it!

I love working there not just because I get to work with Ken (he is a Mountain Patrol) but also because every time we go up to the resort, we pass the spot where he picked me up while I was hitchhiking to work about 5 years a go =] (That’s how we met) So working there has special meaning for both of us.

We did a lot of shoveling, had a lot of training, snowboarded and enjoyed the snow so much. I manage to get some shots thanks to my awesome boss that send me to help in the back country, a pretty gorgeous part of the resort.

I will be pretty busy trying to catch up with design and working there, witch will make my blogging kind of slow for a bit. Sad! But on the other hand my friend Katy and I have already planned a pretty cool new section for the blog, I will teach her how to sew and we will share it with everyone, so you can all tag along in the learning =] Stay tuned it will come soon!

One of the things we did A LOT while been in vacations was eat =] I love Chilean food and since we have only found 2 Chilean restaurants in LA I was craving all of it. And one of the things I craved the most was my favorite fruit “Tunas”. I found out that cactus fruit was the translation or Prickly Pears. Anyways this little bites of heaven can be found anywhere but not in the massive amount at the super cheap price as in Chile and most south American counties.

So one of our first stops was the “Feria” our version of farmer’s market and we bought 6 kilos of Prickly Pears for about $2.00 dollars (Awesome or what?) I was in cactus fruit heaven =]

This cuties are not for everyone tho, they have a very strong texture because of all the seeds, they are sweet and a little sour but if you are in to food with texture this is a must! It’s like sweet and sour explosion, I just love it!

And since most of them could still have little cactus spike, you have to be careful in how to touch them and peel them – I hated having almost invisible cactus spike in my fingers when I was little, but that was because I couldn’t wait for my mom to peel it for me LOL – To do so you cut the top and the bottom, them make a horizontal cut through the body and with knife and fork open the fruit, the awesome part is that the fruit comes out super easily.

I’ve seen people adding them to salads or mixing them with sour cream, I am not a fan of mixing them with anything, they just taste so good as is.

Ken and I eat probably 30 of them just on an hour! It was his first time eating them and now he’s just as a big fan as I am. He did say it was not the texture and flavor he was expecting but loved it!

This are summer fruit so I can’t wait for it to be summer here so I can go hunt for more =] Even tho I don’t think I could ever beat the prices in South America.

I love sunsets, well who doesn’t? But the things was that I realized I didn’t really remembered last time Ken and I watched one in a romantic mood, so I wrote it in my 101 in 1001, told Ken about it and he loved the idea of making time for sunsets. Of course while in our road trip was the perfect time to do it, every afternoon we stopped at any beach and enjoyed the view. It’s such a simple thing to do and it made us feel so happy!

I only wrote 4 sunsets in my list but we did one for every day in almost 2 weeks =] I loved it! Of course we didn’t take pictures of every single day, but we did capture some of them in Arica, Antofagasta & Iquique.

Wen we were in Iquique I told my cousin and the friends that were with us to so some group shots, it was so much fun and I loved the result.

Our not very successful attempt to spell “AMOR”

Since we all wanted to be in the picture we set the camera in top of a backpack and had this shoot, but while attempting the second one, a big wave came and almost got the camera, as you can see us running on the bottom picture, the good thing was that only our clothes and the backpack got wet YAY!

And now here are my favorite 2 pictures of sunsets, the first one my cousin took without us knowing and showed me later, I know I look like a goofball trying to kiss Ken but I love it! the second one was something we attempted lots and lots of time, actually I told my sister to do that with her BF weeks before but at that time we could not get a somewhat recognizable heart shape with Ken, LOL

Now I love sunsets even more specially when action pictures are taken =]

Stay tuned because tomorrow will the re-launch of my new website and it will come with an awesome giveaway, so don’t miss it!

Hola a todos! I feel like I haven’t blog in ages, I was just so used to share here all the time, but finally we are back in California, after 2 months in the thin and sunny Chile we came back just in time to say “Goodbye winter” well hopefully soon =]

This trip was so awesome and I cant wait to share some of my favorite moments with all of you, but don’t worry I will not only talk about that. I divided it in a few parts so I’m not all over the place ( 2 months is a lot!) I even feels kinda of weird to come back to English lol

Ken enjoyed this trip like no other, I was so proud and happy to see him talk to all my family in Spanish and studding all the time, he’s awesome!

Well I wanted to show you all some pics and tell you all that I am super excited to get back to design (My new site will be launched this week with a giveaway!! eek) and to sew, I haven’t sewed in forever =]

We spent the hollydays with my Mom and little sister *Love them so much*

We showed our friends from California all the tourist spots in Santiago

And it was funny that people assumed that we were all tourist so I caught more than one person in funny situations.

We had a 2 weeks road trip with my cousins and uncles from Peru to Santiago, it was super awesome!

We goofed around a lot =]

And almost discover the Chilean Godzilla LOL

We got to enjoy tons of food in Peru *Well food is a whole different post*

We got to see some little trucks hehe

And enjoy the beach every time we could while my cousins played paparazzi

Those were right next to Ken during the whole trip, he did so good =]

And all of my family went to the airport to say goodbye to us, I can’t believe it’s over!

But on the bright side I get to be beack with Curly, he stayed with Grandpa and Grandma during this couple of months, he was actually pretty mad when we came back didnt let me pet him, but now he’s back to normal and loves us again =]

I am super excited to start this new year blogging and in just a couple of months my blog will be one year old!! – So stay tuned there is a lot coming,

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